Quality recruits: Is anyone as worried as me that we won't get any more?

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Quality recruits: Is anyone as worried as me that we won't get any more?

I'm starting to wonder why, after the quick commitments of Matt Thomas and Monte Morris in a short span, there aren't any recruits with long-standing offers banging down the doors to join them. It seems like everyone is just sitting on their offers, and then everyone will commit to the blue-chip schools on their lists and leave us only competing for players with offers from mid-majors. It's probably paranoia, but ISU fans have had good reason to be paranoid. In particular, I'm worried traditional big men see ISU as unfriendly to post player development, given CFH's own history as a guard and his favoritism for smaller lineups and 4/5s who can shoot (Booker, Niang) and/or ball handle (White). Even with only one traditional big on the roster right now (Gibson) interest seems tepid, and although it's notoriously hard to judge what a recruit is thinking, none of them are saying things like "ISU seems like a good fit/nice place," etc.

On a side note, I'm mad that Marquette seems to be winning EVERY major recruiting battle with us. I counted five players with shortlists including ISU and Marquette, and four were eventually won by them, Thomas being the lone exception. I know they've had recent success, but surely their program isn't seen as THAT much better.

Re: Quality recruits: Is anyone as worried as me that we won't get any more?

Originally Posted by darklion

Trent Lockett and Jameel McKay were the ones I was most disappointed in losing, and they weren't from Milwaukee. Luckily (in a sense) they have limited eligibility.

Jameel was from Milwaukee originally before he went to Indian Hills, from his tweets he seems to love being from there, wasn't surprised when he committed there, but was disappointed we missed out on him.

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